A Comparison Between the Film Gladiator and the Poster

A Comparison Between the Film Gladiator and the Poster

The poster for the film gladiator is a form of still media. They have

done this poster to draw people’s interest to watching the film. I

believe that they have used some very effective techniques which in my

opinion work very well together.

The words in the caption ‘a hero will rise’ are all affirmative. I

think the word ‘hero’ is very effective because when I read the word

‘hero’ I visualise a person who is admired for doing something very

brave or great in the film. The word ‘will’ is effective after ‘hero’

because this implies that a person incline on doing something great or

brave. They have also used ‘will’ before rise which also sets out that

someone has a determination on rising. The caption makes the audience

want to watch this because in my opinion they would like to know

“where this person is going to rise to?” also the words ‘will rise’

are monosyllabic this makes the caption more powerful as they are two

short, sharp, and straightforward words.

Furthermore, the writing of the caption is bigger than everything else

on the poster. My speculation on this is that it is showing us the

audience that it is the most important than all he rest of the

information on the poster. The font of the caption takes up half of

the poster this also shows that it is the most important thing. The

lighter colours on the poster in my opinion have been use on the font

because they want to catch our eyes on the caption as it is the

‘story’ of the film.

Additionally on the poster there is a picture of the gladiator which

is in the centre. This picture is in shadow from light to dark. My

view on this is that the central image will rise from hell to heaven.

The caption is above the gladiator. My assumptions on this are that

the gladiator will do what the caption says, he will rise from the

shadow of hell.